"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> They [Word and Excel - OG] are extremely "mature" products.

I don't know what "mature" means in this context. They are terribly
buggy and counterintuitive, in my experience. I would expect myself to
insert a list of bullet points into a documet in less than 2 hours,
but I don't think I have ever managed this. Certainly the interface
fails the "principle of least astonishment" test.

Still, from time to time I need to read Word docs. I have StarOffice
on my linux computers for just that purpose. However, the success is
mixed at best. Any (English, forget Hebrew until the IBM people do
something about OpenOffice - status, anyone? I need to read some
CVs...) Word doc that has tables, pictures, or something non-trivial
will not be rendered properly by StarOffice, in my experience.

Is it the 7th StarOffice thread here since the beginning of the year
or only the 6th? I shut up...

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
"If it ain't broken, it has not got enough features yet."

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